With its four demos in the early-to-mid-nineties, six full-length albums since and another on the near horizon, Demoncy is one of the most firmly established U.S. black metal bands in the history of the subgenre. In fact, the band must be considered in the same circle as others like Profanatica, Grand Belial’s Key, Von, and Black Funeral as one who helped introduce black metal to the North American scene. “Faustian Dawn,” Demoncy’s first album from 1993, is an artifact in the band’s early discography that perhaps best demonstrates their influence on the black metal landscape that later evolved. Rife with heavily distorted and downtuned guitars, Neolithic percussion, keyboard-driven atmospheres, and multi-layered vocals – both raspy and whispered – “Faustian Dawn” ushered in a new era of evil.
